Who hasn't wanted to be a secret agent at least once in his life? Look at James Bond: He always gets the toys, wins the girl and gets to wear an awesome-looking tuxedo. (Also, he saves the world. That's pretty cool too.) The point is, if you could ap...

Attention all parents: Disney, the company that wants to absorb all childhood happiness, both past and present, is planning to replace you with robots. Unsatisfied with the secondary love and attention they receive from controlling your favorite char...

Have you ever wanted your own army of nightmarish strawberry monsters, ready and willing to carry out your terrible whims and crush any who would dare oppose you? Of course you have! You’re only human, after all. However if there’s one thing that sci...

Holiday shopping has become a bit of spectacle. Between the rise of Black Friday sales and the mass hysteria that can ensue over "it-gifts," it's not hard to see how you could get a sort of disturbing, secret enjoyment over watching the mad dash to b...

Speech recognition, as it relates to software, isn’t what one might call a perfect science. There are still bugs and glitches, even in the best transcription software out there. It’s difficult to accurately determine what someone is actually saying a...

Meet Xenoceratops foremostensis, a brand-new species of ceratopsid, or horned dinosaur. The species was discovered in the plentiful fossil beds of Canada. Weighing in at 2 tons and about 20 feet long, Xenoceratops — meaning “alien-horned face” — live...

Cutting energy costs by fiddling with streetlights is something that's seen debate in the United Kingdom. Turning them off entirely isn't exactly a great option, of course, but there's little that can be done with the infrastructure as it currently e...

Much more valuable than your Crayola collector’s tin, a Japanese man is attempting to auction off the Earth on Yahoo Auctions. Even weirder, at the time of this writing, the auction has 2,772 bids, with the current price sitting at 9,912,356,678 Yen,...

Warning: Do not look at the image above if you have math anxiety. A new study from the University of Chicago found that, for people who get anxious at the idea of doing mathematics, just preparing to do a math problem can trigger activity in a part o...

In 1996, when supercomputer Deep Blue beat the world's greatest chess player, Gary Kasparov, we opened the door for machines to not only take the place human beings, but to surpass us with cold logic and massive processing power. In 2012, humanity is...

Vintage video games can fetch high prices if they just so happen to be of a certain kind. Sometimes a sale is made based on what comes with the game rather than the game itself. In 2010, a copy of the Atari 2600 game Air Raid sold for $31,600, becaus...

The release of Windows 8 is only eight days away, but if you aren’t hip to the formerly-known-as-Metro UI style, and prefer to use something a little more free, Canonical has just released Ubuntu 12.10. With that release, however, comes Windows 8 hat...

Beardo Games launched a new Kickstarter project to fund Crumb Catcher, an iOS game in which the object is to make your beard disgusting. From the crop of now-embedded-into-our-gaming-psyche casual mobile games, Crumb Catcher is a simple game wherein ...

Bedsores are no laughing matter. The sores, which result from inactivity in hospital patients, can ulcerate and become infected, and the condition is thought to be responsible for tens of thousands of preventable deaths worldwide every year. So, no l...

Obsidian Entertainment's new fantasy role-playing game franchise is now the most-funded video game on Kickstarter. As of this writing, Project Eternity has raised $3,568,295 with more than eight hours to go. That’s not even counting the money the dev...

Little kids have a tendency to grow attached to their stuffed animals. Like a security blanket, their favorite soft, plushy toy may become an essential part of their everyday lives -- and an absolute must when it's time to go to bed. Japanese toymake...

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Cartoon Network unleashed a pretty weird video filled with a large amount of cameos from its most famous characters. From the Flintstones, to some of the cast of Adventure Time, to Johnny Bravo, this video is two mi...

The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus has released their newest international piracy watch list for 2012. The watch list highlights nations that aren’t taking adequate action to prevent Internet piracy, compared to the U.S. standard. In ...

Well that didn’t take long. It’s been less than a day since the iPhone 5 was released to the public, and someone has already allegedly jailbroken Apple’s newest device. Grant Paul, a.k.a. chpwn, posted a picture on Twitter of Cydia, an App store for ...

If you've ever read comments on a political website, it can appear that people, in general, aren't willing to see any viewpoint other than their own. They can almost seem incapable of fathoming how someone could hold an opinion opposite the one they ...

We can add television to the list of things that are destroying marriages across the world. According to a recent study from Albion University, watching television can be a significant cause of marital strife, right up there with "no longer caring wh...

Move over, duct tape. You're not the only brand of store-bought tape with near-magical powers anymore. Scotch tape, that humblest denizen of the office supply store, has the ability to transform semiconductors into high-energy superconductors, accord...

Researchers at Aalto University have devised a way to convert tiny drops of water into encoded digital information, building a simple computer out of just water droplets and a water-repellant surface. Using a hydrophobic surface that causes water to ...

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